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Mathieu Nayrolles’ Keynote at the ASE conference in San Diego

November 29, 2019

We had the opportunity to present a keynote talk at the 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE’19). The annotated slide deck is available here. As a world leader in the video game production, we know how much…

Ubisoft La Forge produces a data-driven physics simulation based on Machine Learning

September 20, 2019

Research and Development

We know that Machine Learning is an extremely powerful tool for tackling complex problems which we don’t know how to solve by conventional means. Problems like image classification can be solved effectively by Machine Learning because at the end of…

Artificial intelligence in the video game industry: Part 3 of 3

March 4, 2019

Research and Development

In the previous articles (part 1, part 2), we’ve reflected on artificial intelligence, its evolution, its limits, and the challenge of trying to apply it in ways that are useful for everyday life. Here, we will look at the creation…

Portrait of the three inspiring Ubisoft Women in Tech ambassadors

February 21, 2019

Education, Entrepreneurs, Research and Development

The three Ubisoft Women in Tech ambassadors have been announced: Amira Boutouchent, Julie Tousignant, and Catherine Proulx will be the inspiring role models for the initiative made in collaboration with The Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitain Montreal. The objective: encourage…

Partnering up with Mozilla to develop an AI Coding Assistant

February 12, 2019

Research and Development

We are very proud to announce that the Technology Group, our internal technology partner of game production teams, is working with Mozilla to enhance Clever-Commit. It is an AI technology developed to help programmers evaluate if a code change introduces a…

Artificial intelligence in the video game industry: Part 2 of 3

February 8, 2019

Research and Development

In the previous article, we compared the recent development of both the video game industry and artificial intelligence and explored the challenges attached to the extremely fast advancement of these technologies. Let us now discuss the obstacles of applying the…

Artificial intelligence in the video game industry: Part 1 of 3

February 4, 2019

Research and Development

A few days before his presence at the 2019 D.I.C.E Summit, Yves Jacquier, Executive Director of Production Studios Services, gives us a portrait of AI in video games. Artificial intelligence and video games are both 70 years old, if we say…

The Ubisoft Women in Tech initiative is launching today!

January 24, 2019

Education, Entrepreneurs, Research and Development

We are happy and proud to launch Ubisoft Women in Tech, an initiative to inspire and encourage young women to consider one of the many careers in technology in partnership with the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal “Together, Quebec…

Breaking Things is Easy; Fixing them is Hard

July 9, 2018

Research and Development

Blog Post by Daniel Holden, Animation Programmer at Ubisoft La Forge Research Lab Breaking things is easy; fixing them is hard. This sad fact of life seems undeniable – that in almost all cases tearing things down seems to require…

Daniel Holden’s keynote closes i3D conference at Ubisoft Montreal

May 18, 2018

Research and Development

Ubisoft Montréal had the opportunity to host i3D, the leading conference for real time 3D computer graphics, this week. It was the first time in its 32-year history that this world-renowned conference came to Canada. Daniel Holden, a Ubisoft Montréal…

NSERC/Ubisoft Industrial Research Chair in Believable Virtual Character Experiences.

March 19, 2018

Research and Development

Today, Ubisoft – through Ubisoft La Forge – and McGill University in Montreal announced the creation of the NSERC/Ubisoft Industrial Research Chair in Believable Virtual Character Experiences. The mandate of this new chair is to further 3D rendering methods to…

Ubisoft La Forge presents the Commit-Assistant

March 16, 2018

Research and Development

Joining the strengths of academic research to the video game industry’s practical realities can lead to innovative initiatives, which is exactly what Ubisoft La Forge has accomplished with Commit-Assistant, a prototype developed in collaboration with academic experts. The Commit-Assistant aims to identify patterns in past…

Research and Development

Mathieu Nayrolles’ Keynote at the ASE conference in San Diego

Ubisoft La Forge produces a data-driven physics simulation based on Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence in the video game industry: Part 3 of 3

Portrait of the three inspiring Ubisoft Women in Tech ambassadors

Partnering up with Mozilla to develop an AI Coding Assistant

Artificial intelligence in the video game industry: Part 2 of 3

Artificial intelligence in the video game industry: Part 1 of 3

The Ubisoft Women in Tech initiative is launching today!

Breaking Things is Easy; Fixing them is Hard

Daniel Holden’s keynote closes i3D conference at Ubisoft Montreal

NSERC/Ubisoft Industrial Research Chair in Believable Virtual Character Experiences.

Ubisoft La Forge presents the Commit-Assistant

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